Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis
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Book Overview
Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691036500
ISBN13:9780691036502
Release Date:March 1997
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:397 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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The best overview of the sports industry and the politics of stadiums
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"Michael Danielson has produced the most thorough and evenhanded analysis yet of the politics of sports and cities. He focuses on the way that sports teams foster and exploit a sense of 'place,' particularly in cities were dynamic economic growth or decline undermines a more organic and abiding civic identity." -- Charles Euchner, author of "Playing the Field," writing in The American Political Science Review, March 1998, p. 227.
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